Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.
It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.
Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.
My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.
Without standards, there can be no improvement.
The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements…But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts.